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[Guide] Dual Booting Mountain Lion and Windows 8

booted with unibeast/mavericks USB and created 2 partitions, formated journal for mavericks and fat32 for windows 8, then installed mavericks and ran probook installer with chameleon and was able to boot into mavericks, noticed that there is a 200 mb partition automatically created, then booted with Win 8 USB and when tried installing on the previously created Fat32 partition got a error that windows cant be installed on MBR disc even though I formatted the disc as GUID in disk utility, deleted that partition and recreated as NTFS, left some unallocated space, installed windows 8, now when I boot dont see the OSX partition anymore, booted with unibeast USB and installed chameleon again and now I see 2 the options to choose Mavercks and Windows 8, Windows automatically created a system reserved partition for bootmgr files I guess. so when I tried creating another partition on the unallocated space I got that basic disc to dynamic disc error.
 
rehabman, can you point me to the post which explains duel boot partitioning scheme for Mavericks Clover and Win 8 UEFI on same HD, can I make more than 4 partition on the hard drive
 
ascianabhro said:
rehabman, can you point me to the post which explains duel boot partitioning scheme for Mavericks Clover and Win 8 UEFI on same HD, can I make more than 4 partition on the hard drive
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Follow the guide linked by post #322. In that guide, Windows is installed UEFI to pure GPT. There is no limit on the number of partitions.

When using UEFI/pure-GPT, Windows partitions should be created in Windows only.
 
So this will work with Win 7 and Yosemite ?
 
This guide on the first post.
 
Rehabman, installed Mavericks and Win 8 following the guide, mounted EFI partition and all working good, only glitch is the battery status stuck at 95%, HWMonitor reports the same. I see on the Mavericks Probook clover guide to remove EmuVariableUefi-64.efi. I dont see that file inside EFI/ClOVER/driver64UEFI so I think installed without it, anything I am missing? another thing is I have not yet received delivery of the Atheros card so using an Airport Express wired in bridge mode to access internet, when I install the wifi card later anything needs to be done on bios or reinstall PBI/Clover.
 
ascianabhro said:
Rehabman, installed Mavericks and Win 8 following the guide, mounted EFI partition and all working good, only glitch is the battery status stuck at 95%, HWMonitor reports the same. I see on the Mavericks Probook clover guide to remove EmuVariableUefi-64.efi. I dont see that file inside EFI/ClOVER/driver64UEFI so I think installed without it, anything I am missing? another thing is I have not yet received delivery of the Atheros card so using an Airport Express wired in bridge mode to access internet, when I install the wifi card later anything needs to be done on bios or reinstall PBI/Clover.
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This is not the correct forum to discuss Probook troubleshooting.

Open a separate thread in the ProBook forum.

Be prepared to provide troubleshooting files.

Keep in mind that the system does not begin charging the battery until you reach a lower threshold (somewhere around 92%). It is done this way to avoid unnecessary cycles on the battery and is controlled by EC firmware. In other words, it is likely the behavior you report is "by design".
 
Going Bald said:
Installing Win8

Disconnect all drives except the Windows 8 drive-to-be.
When you boot Win8 install DVD on a UEFI BIOS mainboard, Win8 wants to install UEFI. Unfortunately, if it does this Chimera/Chameleon can't "see" the boot files. There are at least 2 ways to prevent this. One way, when you boot with the install DVD in the tray, hit F8/F11/F12 or whatever the Function key is that allows you to select a boot device during the BIOS POST. You will find that your DVD shows up twice - once as SATA and once as UEFI. Choose the SATA. You do not want the UEFI. Another is to disable UEFI in the BIOS. Some BIOSes have an option for boot mode with the selections: Legacy, Legacy or UEFI, UEFI. Selecting the Legacy option forces non EFI installation.
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I'm doing my first hackintosh, but I'm still planning the execution and picking the hardware. At first I plan to install the OS X in a SSD and Windows 8.1 in a regular 1TB HDD.


I have been doing my research, but some topics are still tricky for me. So, I have some noob questions about this Windows install process in separate drives.


1. In case if I install Win8 from a usb flash drive (instead of a DVD) will it shows up as SATA and UEFI in the boot device selection for me to pick one?


2. Is it mandatory to format the HDD to install Win 8?


3. After the installation could I use the HDD to install some applications from OS X and storage data? Or it has to be for windows only?


Thanks in advance and sorry for any grammar mistake or repeated questions that I may have done.
 
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